Gordhan urges Ramaphosa to sack Zuma when elected as ANC President

Gordhan unleashed real venom!

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA – JULY 25: Former Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan during Parliament’s public enterprises portfolio committee’s meeting on corruption allegation at Eskom on July 25, 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa. According chairwoman Zukiswa Rantho, the committee would leave no stone unturned in getting to the bottom of allegations of corruption at Eskom. (Photo by Gallo Images / Daily Sun / Lindile Mbontsi)

If it was ever unclear, it’s now evident that there’s no love lost between former Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan and the man who relieved him of his duties in March this year, President Jacob Zuma.

Gordhan has come out backing Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa in the race for ANC presidency and called on him to fire Zuma in January.

“The Ramaphosa team must take over in December‚ and in January they must tell Mr Zuma to go and live in Nkandla‚” Gordhan said.

Speaking at an investment conference in Cape Town on Thursday alongside his former deputy Mcebisi Jonas, he made no secret of his feelings about the President of the Republic as well as his camp within the ruling party.

“What you have at the moment is a group of people who are willing to do anything in order … to loot from the state firstly. Secondly‚ they don’t care about consequences,” he continued.

Gordhan’s successor in Treasury, Malusi Gigaba also did not escape criticism as he warned South Africans to watch the new minister’s every step.

Jonas was asked to weigh in on which institutions were not captured and advised citizens of the country to defend all institutions.

“Until recently‚ we have been saying Treasury was on the right track‚ the Reserve Bank is on the right track and Stats SA and the (Independent) Electoral Commission. But that is not static, all institutions are under attack. We must defend all institutions‚ even those we think are not captured‚” he said.

Gordhan listed financial institutions such as the Treasury, the Financial Intelligence Centre and the Reserve Bank as institutions that have been captured and questioned Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s call to change the Reserve Bank’s mandate.

“I mean‚ we must ask the public protector‚ ‘since when did you become an expert on macro-economic policy?’ ” said Gordhan.

“Apart from visiting the Presidency‚ which economist advised (her) on what (she) said about the necessity to change the mandate of the heritage Reserve Bank?

“That wasn’t just a so-called honest mistake‚ that was part of a conspiracy‚ and we need to know more about where this economist came from.”